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Originally Posted by GA Russell
This leads me to believe that ideally the right to publish the book should revert to the author in the case where the publisher allows it to go out of print. Presumably the author still cares. And I imagine that an author could publish in eBook form an existing work at minimal cost and effort if he cared to.
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Well, it goes back to the author today after it has been out of print a certain time. But the publishers often works around that by claiming that the book is in print. being in print is probably not well defines so you have an easy method to test it.